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THE ENQUIRER, CINCINNATI, FRIDAY, DECEBIBER 1C, 1927 ADVERTISING MAN DIES. offered to Secretary Frank B. Kel ing Nicaragua and it appealed logically to us. ton Schmidt, assistant City Solicitor, William Schmidt and Miss Madeline Schmidt Mr. Schmidt also is survived by his widow, Mrs.

Esther Newman Schmidt. Joseph Schmidt Widely Known In Cincinnati Business Circles. Joseph Schmidt, 60 years old. Pres ident of the Joseph Schmidt Advertising Company and former Vice President of the rrather-Allen Ad vertising Company, died yesterday at his home in the Landon Apartments, Landon court. Ho had been ill two years.

Mr. SchmKt was a native of New York. He came to Cincinnati 22 years ago and since that time has been Identified prominently in business circles here. He was a member of tho Avon Masonic Lodge, Shrlner, Thirty-Second Degree Mason, mem ber of the Rotary Club, Adevrtlsors' Club, Chamber of Commerce and Elks. Mr.

Schmidt was the father of Mil declared he was convinced no payments had been made. Subpoenas were Issued tonight for all telegraph and cable companies in New York to submit their messages relating to Mexican Government business to the Senate fcommittee. Mr. Hearst, at the beginning of his testimony, passed the whole batch of documents gathered by the Hearst organization across the table in a big envelope and the committee did not make all of them public. It was disclosed, however, that most of the $1,215, 000 was covered in an alleged official order by the Mexican Controller General, dated July 15, 1926, setting aside the money "to be charged to secret expenditures for pro-Mexican propaganda." Under this heading Borah was to receive $500,000, Heflin $350,000 and Norris $360,000.

Under a separate heading, Le Follette, designated by his initials M. was allotted $15,000. The order of the Controller General was addressed to the Chief Clerk of tho Controller's Department, and there the trail ended. The story of how the papers were obtained was gone into at length by Mr. Hearst and witnesses who followed him.

E. B. Coblentz, editor of the New York American, said he supervised preparation of them for publication and made inquiries as to their authenticity until he satisfied himself that they were "absolutely genuine." He added that the collection had been Senators Deny Roles in Mexican Scheme; Hearst Is on Stand CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE. said they had cost in the neighborhood of $15,000. The publisher also told the committee it was his understanding that the collection had been submitted to the American Embassy at Mexico City and to officials at the Summer White House in the Black Hills several months before publication.

He had been told, he said, that President Coolidge was "not willing to become acquainted with the details," but felt there was no proof that any of the Senators named had taken money. The same opinion "was expressed freely among committee members during the hearing. Senator David A. Reed, of Pennsylvania, Chairman, specifically called attention that "no evidence" of payments had been put into the record, and Senator Joseph T. Robinson, of Arkansas, Democratic floor leader, Lindbergh in Mexico To follow the preliminary article written by Col.

Charles A. Lindbergh before his hop-off for Mexico, and printed in Wednesday's Enquirer, arrangements have been made for a series of articles by him on his ex-periences during the flight and of his observations in Mexico. These will be printed in the CINCINNATI ENQUIRER immediately on their receipt from Col. Lindbergh. Do Not Miss Any of Them "MOTHER OF AMERICAN CANDIES" signatures of your brother?" asked Senator William C.

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Both Mr. Coblenti and Miguel Avila, who followed him on the wit ness Htnnri related details of the ne gotiations by which the papers were obtained. It was Avila, a former atrent in the American military intel ligence service during the war, who was credited with having extracted the documents from the Mexican files, workinc through clerks both In Mexico City and in the case of the consulate in New York. Testifying with a pronounced accent, he told a fascinating story of his experiences in New York, Mexico City ana along the border. Expected Copies, Hearst Says.

Mr. Hearst told the committee that it was through Edward Clark, manager of his mother's estate, and a third man whose name he gave to the committee in secret, that he first learned that the documents were procurable. He had expected at first to obtain only copies, he Bald, but when delivery was made during the sum mer, beginning last May, he found that he had been given vhat purported to be the originals. The fact that he kept the papers in his possession during the summer, Mr. Hearst said, led him to discount the Mexican Government's denials of their authenticity, since on one occasion it had been stated in a denial that an offer was made In August to sell the collection back to the Mexican Government itself.

Asked directly whether he had any evidence indicating that any Senator accepted payment, the publisher replied: "No." "Have you any reason to believe that any Senator did accopt any such money?" continued Chairman Reed. "I have no reason to believe it at all," was the reply. "As a matter of fact I do not believe It." "Why did you not make an effort to determine whether the payments had been made?" asked Sonator Robinson. "Any such investigation, carried on at any length, would have revealed entirely the documents." "You Intend to reveal thrm finally?" "I did not intend to ublish any names, and I did not." Names Out of Facsimile. (As the documents appeared in facsimile recently in the Hearst papers the names had been marked out.) "Why?" continued Senator Robinson.

"Well, because personally I agreed with the statement which Mr. Clark said the President made, that in all probability this was merely a blind for the distribution of that money in some other direction." When the witness said a little later that he had been surprised that no congressional investigation was ordered sooner, Senator Robinson asked if a congressional inquiry was one of his objects. "That is what I thought it would result In," said Mr. Hearst. The publisher also was questioned at length by Senator Robinson re garding his holdings in Mexico City which, he said, probably would be unsafe now that Hearst newspapers had published its Mexican expose.

He declared he could not give details of his properties from memory but supposed they amounted to "three or four millions." Senator Heflin, a conspicuous figure in all Senate discussions of Mexico because of his repeated attacks upon the attitude of Roman Catholics toward the Calles Government, took the witness stand as soon as Mr. Hearst had left it. The Senator was not sworn, but after he had made his statements he returned and asked that the oath be administered to apply to what he already had said, and the committee acquiesced. He made a sweeping denial that he ever had been approached. "Have Not Received Cent." "I have not received a cent from any source except the money that was paid me to pay my expenses when I went around the country lecturing on the Mexican situation, the same line that I spoke In the Senate, and covering the lecture charge that I made.

And the checks that I received for that service were cashed through the disbursing office of the Senate." "They were not checks from the Mexican Government?" asked Chairman Reed. "Oh, no. A hundred or a hundred and fifty dollars, whatever the amount, that was given to mo by various people where I lectured Protestant preachers of various denominations. Masons, Junior Order of American Mechanics, and some Ku Klux Klansmen, and various Protestant orders that invited me to come and deliver my address on the Mexican situation." The Alabama Senator declared that rhen Senator Reed offered his resolution for a Senate inquiry into the Hearst documents, he himself was on the point of doing the same thing. I think it has come to a miserable and pitiful pass," he continued, when a Senator cannot take a stand In the United States Senate for the good of his country and in the in terest of without having a bunch of blackmailers and scalawags and scoundrels link his name in such a scandalous purpose as this." A request that the committee BATH ROOM SCALES Are Good Gifts for those who need to DIET and also those who need 1 to EAT MORE Three models reduced For 10 Days Only 11.39-12.45-14.00 ittiMimmiimitiit The Max Wocher Son Co.

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He took one and replied: 'I can't read those documents, Mr. Did Not Have To Decode. After each code telegram taken in Elias's office was an English translation, Page said, "so we did not have to decode them." "Did you ever submit the code messages to an expert?" Reed asked. "No." "Make no effort to test the codes?" "No." "Did you have any evidence except Mr. Avila's say so that he know Mr.

Ellas?" "No." "Havo you any evidence that any Senator of the United States received this money?" "No." "Can you suggest a lead for further confirmation of your story?" "I suggest you learn If the codo telegrams passed. Also If the loft Mexico City." "Have you any roaBon to believe nv American Senator did receive money?" "No, sir." After Page had been excused Clark and Avila were rooalled for brief questioning. Avila reiterated that he had known Ellas for 14 years, despite the Consul General's denial that he was ac quainted with Avila, and told the committee that he had called on Ellas in New York. After Avila had told his story the committee adjourned until tomorrow. DIPLOMATS Are Guests of tho President and Mrs.

Coolidge at Annual Dinner Musicale Then Follows. Washington, December 15 (A. Thirteen Ambassadors, 30 Ministers and six Chaige D'Affalres wore en tcitulned at the White House tonight by tho I'rosldont and Mrs. Coolidge at their annual dlploniatlo dinner. In addition, Secretary of State Frank 13, Kellogg and Mrs.

Kellogg, Senator William IS. Borah and Mrs. Borah, Idaho, and Representative Stephen O. Torter, Pennsylvania, wen among the guests. Senator Uorah am Representative Porter are chairmen of tho Senate and Ilouso Foreign Committees, respectively.

As Is customary at the functions, tho dinner was followed by a musl- cale, to which additional guests were Invited. The program was given by a string ensemblo, with Olga Samaroff, pianist, as soloist. When You Feel a Cold Coming On Take Laxative BIIOMO QUIN1NK Tablet to work off the Colds and to fort fy tne system aiainit urID Influenta. A safa and Proven Item edv. Look tor signature of B.

W. Grove on the box. 30a. Advertisement Rovers delivered anywhere by telegraph ALLIKP FLORISTS' prosecute the investigation to the limit" also was made by Senator La-Follette, who testified under oath at his own request. He said he was not unmindful that the charges had appeared in papers published by Mr.

Hearst and "among the most ardent supporters of the present Administra tion." or that he himself repeatedly had attacked the Administrations policy toward Mexico. 'The dastardly attempt to link my name with the charges pending be fore this committee," ho continued, will not cause me to deviate so much as a hair's breadtn rrom tne course i have marked out for myself." Borah Indulges In Smile. Senator Boran smiled when the Chairman informed him that he had been named as the intended recipient of $500,000. He then denied the charges in the documents singly and as a whole, saying he did not know Consul General Ellas and had not seen Dudley Field Malone, nor had any communication with him in the last five or six years. "This Is all Greek to me or Span ish, anyway," said the Idaho Sonator.

Of course, as I said before, this mut ter has never reached me in any shape or form. I know nothing about it except what is being developed here in this hearing." In addition to denying that intima tion has come to him, Senator Norris called on the committee in his statement to establish definitely whether the Hearst documents are genuine or false. "If they are false," ho said, "the man who perpetrated them on the public and blackened the reputations of American officials and Mexican of ficials alike, deserves exposure and punishment to the full limit of the law." Consul General Ellas told the com mittee that "every one of those papers was forged," and to support his assertion he declared that the symbol of his office did not appear on any of the papers purporting to have been extracted from the consulate files. He denied that he ever had seen Avila until today, and also directly denied one of Avila's state ments -that certain papers' had been turned over by p. "Colonel Shandon," formerly associated with the Department of Justice, to Ellas.

Documents Are Thumbed. One by one, the Consul-General, a half brother of President P. Ellas Calles, leafed through the collection of Hearst documents, declaring again and again that they were not on the kind of paper used by the Mexican Government, that he never had seen them before, and that in running down telegrams and money transactions covered in the file the committee waB at liberty to go into the records of the telegraph companies and banks with which he had business. "There is not a word of truth In any of them," he said. "They are forgeries.

None were taken from my office." Nor had he ever received any money from his government, he said, for propaganda In the United States. At the start of, the night session of the committee Ellas was recalled. Chairman Reed asked several attaches of the Mexican Embassy who were sitting behind the committee table to move to a side of the room which they did readily. Ellas said ho never had seen Ma lone before today and he never had had. any negotiations with him, direct ly or indirectly.

The Consul General at first was un able say whether the messages were in the official Mexican code but later, after inspection, he denied that the code was authentic, remarking that tho countersign was wrong. Denies Knowledge of Arcos. Replying to inquiries from Senator Hiram W. Johnson, of California, Ellas said ho did not know what the Arcos, the Soviet trade organization in London, is. He also testified that he knew nothing about the documents relating to Nicaragua and Japan, Ellas said ho had been paying $600 a month to Jose Kelly, at the dlrec tlon of the Mexican Department of Commerce and industry, for lectures in the interest of Mexico.

"Is there any one besides Mr. Kelly to whom you pay money for proselyt ing and Senator Johnson asked. "Wo pay Mr. Kelly $600 a month, and a Mr. Haberman $600 a month," Ellas replied.

"I don't know what they are paid for. I am merely the fiscal agent of the Government in the transaction. Haberman Is in New York and Kelly here in The Consul General denied that he had received any message from Min ister of Foreign Affairs Estrada at Mexico City asking for a report on tho antecedents of Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow and particularly whether he had any relations with petroleum companies. Asked whether the signatures on several documents bearing the name of President Calles, his half-brother, were authentic, Ellas said: "They look like his signature but I do not think they are.

I can't say." Finally he denied that the letter heads of the papers were those of the President of Mexico. Once after he had declared the signature Was not that of President Calles, Chair man Reed remarked: "You haven't even looked at the signature yet." Ellas then pointed to the signature and reiterated bis denial. "Why do you say these are not the "They do not look the same," Ellas replied. "They are not heavy enough." Pressed by Senator Johnson, the Consul General said he did not wish to testify positively whether any of the signatures shown him were those of his half-brother. "Then you would rather not say," Johnson inquired.

"No, I am not sure." Edward H. Clark, of San Francisco, manager of the Hearst estate, followed Ellas. Mr. Hearst has testi fied that Mr. Clark was among tho first to receive the documents.

Mr. Clark told the committee he had been Informed by an American business man living in Mexico that there wore documents available in Mexico City of vital Interest. He withheld his informant's name, but said ho had passed the word on to Mr. Hearst and Informed the man In Mexico later that Mr. Hoarst was Interested in the documents.

Later, he said, he authorized the man to, obtain the documents. I certainly trust him," Mr. Clark said. "I have known him for years." The papers were turned over to Mr. Hearst, Mr.

Clark said, adding: I told Mr. Hearst I thought the letters genuine but I did not think the money went to the Senators. Mr. Hearst suggested I take them to President Coolidge In South Dakota." What happened then?" Senator Reed asked. Mr.

Clark hesitated, but membors of the committee said thy saw no harm in his speaking. 'I feel very sure President Coolidge would not want you to conceal any thing," Senator Reed said. 'By appointment I called on President Coolidge in his ofllce at Rapid City and had a short conversation," Mr. Clark testified. 'Ho said he did not know that he should listen trt what I had to say.

Ambassador Sheflleld was then there. He did not discuss the matter or look at the papers. I presume he had talked this over with Mr. Sheffield." Mr. Clark said he did not take the matter up with Ambassador Khefflld, but that John rage, a Hearst newspaper man, had told him the papers previously had been shown to Mr.

Sheflleld. Mr. Clark said he never had made an effort to determine tne genuine ness of the documents. Writer la Summoned. John Page, who wrote tho articles about the documents published In Hearst papers, then was called.

Page Bald late last April or early In May an American resident of Mexico City had told him that he had remarked to a Mexican- woman that most Mexican officials were "graft ers," and tnat sne naa repnea mat many American officials were graft ers," and naa recauea tnat sne naa seen papers purporting to show that money had been sent by her Government to American officials. Finally Pago testified he communi cated with Mr. Hearst through Irter- medlarles "to find out if I should try to get tho documents." About ten days later he said he was Informed Mr. Hearst had authorized him to obtain them. At flrst'Page continued, he promised the woman who had disclosed existence qf the papers $1,000 to procure the papers, but she failed to produce.

"At the end of ten daj a wo tola her we were not interested In the papers," said Page. "I suggested employing Avila and was authorized to hire him. I had confidence in him." Avila got In touch with a man employed in the office where the papers were kept, Page told tho committee, and confirmed the existence of the documents. "The employee said he would get the papers for a sum," rage continued. "Avila reported that he could deliver tho papers on the next day.

The noxt day he came to us and produced the papers." One of the documents, he said, was signed by the Controller General, re-porting the payment of $1,200,000 for three United States Senators. "Went To Sheffield." "We went Immediately to Ambassador Sheffield," the witness went on. "He said ha would not believe them. He asked us to take them to the Counsellor of the Embassy to get his opinion. "We went to the Counsellor's house.

He stated the documents had every appearance of being genuine and was excited. "We were satisfied the documents were at leasjkr worth showing Mr. Hearst. The next day we got three additional documents from Avila. We then took all of them to New York and showed them to Mr.

Clark and Mr. Hearst. "Mr. Hearst asked us to return to San Antonio, where we were promised additional documents. We waited about five days at San Antonio.

These Mexican employees arrived and deliv ered thera to Mr. Avila." Asked as to how he tested the au thentlcity of the documents. Page said they were referred to an Amer lean friend of his who had been a newspaper man In Mexico for years. "He obtained the signature of President Calles and compared It to the signatures of our papers," re counted Page. "The stationery was that of President Calles.

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